Method of seasoning leather



' No .Drawing, {ori in l app icapi a mea "April 21, 917, Serial No. 163,582. Divided V is Qfi1edlApril 27, -1920. Se ria1Nq.'-376,955.-

To all wii'o mlz't mam i. arrogant azbnivowsxi, or PHILADEILr iA, PENNSYLVANIA:

'MEmomF sEAsoNinG LEATHER. 7

' v Be it knownthat I,,MIorIAnL Zon- Now'sKI', a citizen-"of theQUnited States, re-j sidingin the cityiand county of Philadel phia, Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented V new and useful fMethodfof,v Sea'sonmg' Leather,;of whichthe following is" a speclfi f cation.

' 1n my. parent application Serial No.)

163,582, filed April 21st,: 1917, I: have described and 1 generically-claimed a novel method of making glazed kid leather and 1 my presentinventionwhichisa division of soningj my parent ,application aforesaid relates more particularly" to a novel method of sea- In carrying, out inventioniin practice v the skins are first tanned in, any desired: manner andcpreferably inacco'rdan'ce withthe method set forth in'myliparent'ap'plication. c.

After the tanning iscompleted, thefskins i T Speci fication 01 Letters latent;

Q a glass agate, such as is commonly used 1 the manufacture-of'leather,

It will now be'apparent that-I havede-f;

:vised a, novel and useful, method of season- Patented July' 6,' 19 2O." and thisapplicati on I,

jingi leather which, embodies the features-of 1 :advantage enumerated as. desirable in the 4:5

statement of the invention and the :above I description, and while I have, in th'e'present invention, shown and described a preferred v be understood that sueh embodiment issus-V,

V embodiment thereof which will give in practice satisfactory and reliable results, it is to ceptible of modification in variousipartie'u lars withoutdepartingirom thespirit or scope of the invention orsacrificing any of a its advantages."-

:1 claim as new and desire to secure; by Let- 'ters Patent,is; 7 .7 I g V L i m ng of are. again washed, struck out, dyed as usual, oiled, "dried and staked as usual, and they r are now readyfor the seasoning. This sea- .soning is made by taking, five ounces vof 'water,.onefdra'm ofhigrosin, two grains of carbolic acid #5, two' drams ofjbloodf albumen or o'X- blood,"oneijdram of wood alcohol or ammonia, ten grains of gelatin or glue, and fifteenv grains of formaldedyde.

The skins are seasoned, then glazed, seasoned, and glazed'again and the resultantleather is" water'proofl soft, elastic and;

plnmp, with aismooth silky grain.

In the seasoning operation, the seasoning material is rubbed into the grain side of V are thenvglazed by a glazing machine, using I y the skin in the usual manner and the skins '1. The sub process {glazed leather, which consists in seasoning thefle'ather with a seasoningconsisting of Having thus described invention, what water, nigrosin, carbolic acid, blood albu men, wood' alcohol, gelatin, and formalde hyde. L m v 2. The sub-process in the making of the leatherfwith a seasoning consisting of fivegounces of water, one-dram-ofnigrosinj, I twograins Q'f carb'o1icaci d'#5, two dianis'}; of bloodj albumem jone dram] of wood 7 alcohol, ten grains,of gelatinfand fifteen" v grains of formaldehyde, in approximately I the proportions stated.

MICHAEL A, 2D Witnesses: I f 5 r i )C. DQMOVAY, I}: 'M.JE.

5 T glazed leather, which consists in seasoning. 

